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South London’s half decent Oi band The Business giving it a go with the original line up (a far poppier sounding line up than the reformed band\u00a0that emerged a\u00a0year or so\u00a0after this single was released).<\/p>\n
The tracks uploaded from\u00a0this debut\u00a07″ single\u00a0are surprisingly\u00a0classy. The terrace anthem type A\u00a0side ‘Harry May’ is a decent piece of street gangster chic about some geezer with a shooter in the boot! Sounds a charming guy…<\/p>\n
The standout track is the well\u00a0thought out B side ‘National Insurance Blacklist’ with\u00a0the\u00a0beautifully\u00a0soft but effective, guitar\u00a0and bass lines going all the way through the tune. The subject matter is also surprising fare for an Oi band in 1981 to take on. Effectively MI5’s secret (at the time) blacklist of striking workers and communist sympathisers that would\u00a0find it increasingly differcult to\u00a0be able to\u00a0find employment\u00a0again\u00a0during the new dawn of Thatcher’s clampdown on the nationalised industry and the workers that were employed who dared to speak out from time to time.<\/p>\n
About as far left as one could go regarding a choice of subject to rant about, good on ’em.<\/p>\n
Pretty sure the original band that released this single split following the Southall Hamborough Tavern performance\u00a0(alongside Last Resort and The Four Skins) that turned that area upside down for a couple of weeks in July 1981. The riots of course continued nationwide throughout the remanider of the summer.<\/p>\n
Further line ups and releases for this band I know little to nothing about at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Harry May National Insurance Blacklist South London’s half decent Oi band The Business giving it a go with the original line up (a far poppier sounding line up than the reformed band\u00a0that emerged a\u00a0year or so\u00a0after this single was released). The tracks uploaded from\u00a0this debut\u00a07″ single\u00a0are surprisingly\u00a0classy. The terrace anthem type A\u00a0side ‘Harry May’ is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6109,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/6109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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